The Normal Plan

(all photos courtesy of Google)

                                  

In life we always follow a plan set out, what the people in the traditional days called “circle of life”. We are born, we grow, we marry, we have children, we get old, and we die. In today’s world it is no different. The same principles apply.

But what if…what if you went contrary to the circle of life and tried something different. Kali had many friends who had married, got children and jobs, but not him, no, he was different, he did not want to fit in, he wanted to be his own.

He was amazed that people were always challenging him why at his age, he did not have any of the things his friends were struggling with. People hate different. They want each and every one to follow a routine. Finish college, get a job and a family. Even his parents asked him if he was OK. His younger siblings were also in on the act ready to run to school and tell their friends how their big brother was a success of the ‘normal plan’.

Of course he had asked himself a thousand times what was wrong with him. It did not seem anything was changing and he was getting older. He needed to move out of his parent’s pay check and live by his own means. He needed to be independent. He also wanted to start his own family. He craved to find employment. He wanted his own money. There was something missing.

Kali was a guy of few words. In college he kept to himself but when surrounded by people he could not stop talking. He was like an inverted introvert. Cold on the inside, hot on the outside. He had tried once or twice to find a companion of the opposite sex, but it always ended in disaster and this broke his spirit more. He was a smart fellow in class and most lecturers applauded his discipline and determination.

If he wanted a job right now there was nothing stopping him. If he wanted a girlfriend there were so many who had confessed their interest it was up to him to choose. If he wanted the ‘normal life’ he could have had it, why then did he reject the terms and conditions.

                                                             

In the middle of the ocean,

A lost soul,

Misunderstood,

Lonely,

Cold,

Other souls pass by,

He does not wave at them,

They are too busy,

He does not want to disturb them,

He is different,

He is unusual,

He is crazy,

He wants to live his own life and not a plan set by man, but a plan set by God. Everyone is doing the same thing but him, how that affects their lives is a mystery. He knows himself, he has his own plans. He has his own dreams, his own vision and knows what he wants. For Kali he will do what is best for him so that in the end he has no regrets and is satisfied with whatever God gives him.